Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-09
IN A SMALL WAY.
Tho News Of the Day Pointedly Para
Eraphsd for Hasty Readers.

OFFICER WEST run in a Vag yesterday
morning
THREE marriage licenses were issued
yesterday.
"EAsT LYNNE at the Opera House
matinee this afternoon.
'NoBoDY's CHILD" at the Grand Opera
House matinee this afternoon.
THE Howell House will be headquarters
for the baseballists this season.
THERE was but one case before His
Honor yesterday morning. plain drunk.
ANTON Hess started his mammoth soda
water fountain, West Virginia" yester-
day.
MEssRs. FULToRs & PAUL. are repaint-
ing Mr.. Joseph Bells LeatherwoOd resi-
dence.
THE Baltimore and Ohio Company have
discontinued their Sunday excursions to
Pittsburg.
AGRAND ball will be given by the ElsOn
Fishing Club at Lafayette Hall, Martins
Ferry, Friday evening, April 10.
The LaBelle factory and plate depart
ment are shut down and tool iron Is being
manufactured in the forge department
REV. n. L. ATwOOD's diseourses tO-mOr-
row will be, in the morning, The Sabbath
Day" and in the evening, The Lords
Day"
S. o. BoICE and Col. W. W. Arnett have
formed law partnership, and will occupy
quarters in the basement of the Court
House.
The Committee on Heath had force
of men at work yesterday setting the stone
pillars for the foundation for the crematOry
building.
THE gay and festive tramp has aroused
from his Information and is shaking out
his gaudy wings preparatory to the summer
campaign of ~.
EUGENE HANKE and James Delaney
will skate ten mile dash at the Alham-
bra Palace rink this evening, Delaney to
receive a lap start.
A FRAME house on the West Virginia
side Of the river, opposite Steubenyille,
WAS destroyed by fire yesterday with oil
its contents. The building was occupied
by Harvey Chapman. >
A PECULIAR young bird is on exhibition
in McLain Bros window labeled Irish
parrot" 1t is said by those who are ac-
quainted with parrots to be a young owl.
No one said it isn't.
MARTIN THORNTON served an elegant
supper to a number of the Scottish Rite
Masons, on Wednesday evening, at his
Cafe Brunswick, and it was pronounced by
all to be par excellence.
THE locomotive smoke was so dense and
lowering in the vicinity OfSixteenth street,
last evening, Just before dark, that a num-
Der of people who saw it began scoOtlng for
home as fast as they could 90, thinking II
was heavy storm cloud.
JOHN ENGLEHART, while working at
a circular saw ut Beltz, Flading < Co. s
planning mill, yesterday afternoon, had the
little finger OF his left hand cut OFF; also
the end Of the next one. The accident
was caused by CarelessnesS.
YESTERDAY afternoon the base ball
grounds near the toll gate was the scene OF
an exciting game OF ball between the Col
lege Browns" and the "Chumps," which
resulted in u score of "a to 23 in favor OF
the latter. Time of game one hour and
fifty minutes.
NEWS from the oil field says John Me
Keown's Martin 5, situated a short dist
ance northwest of Fergus 2, got a pay
streak on Wednesday at about four feet III
the sand and commenced throwing out the
oil at - lively gait. Yesterday she was
producing at the rate OF about $50 barrels
per day.
SOME OF the members of Council are dis
cussing the question of Mr.. VOLTS eligibil-
ity TO the Police and Fire Board. The
claim is made that inasmuch as Mr.. Wolf
has laIge dealings with the ire and police
departments, in the hiring oftelephOnes, he
is not eligible to the position under the
ordinance.
THE ladies of the English Lutheran
Church have raised the money and pur-
chased new carpet for their church on
Sixteenth street. Messrs. Frew & Bert
chy 5 men laid the carpet yesterday. Sew
eTal other new things ut this church will
make their Easter services specially attrac-
tive Tomorrow.
AT the Monroe county, o., Democratic
convention, G.. w. Hamilton was noui-
mated for Representative, Miller for Treas
urer, Pearson for Probate Judge, Shnls-
berger for Sheriff, Jennings for Prosecut-
ing Attorney, Warner for Commissioner
Gillespie for Infrmary Director, and Potts
for Coroner The Children's Home prOpO-
sitiOu carried.
CHRIS. FALKENsTEIN, of McKeesport,
Pa, writes to the REGISTER stating that
he had written tO Eugene Hanke accepting
his challenge, printed in this paper recent
ly, for q three mile race for 800 4 side,
providing Hanke gives him three weeks
time to get in condition, rs he has not
skated for year. 1t is now in order to
hear from, HanGn